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Google Voice Screwups

GV Screwups is a blog showcasing accidental mis-transcriptions of the Google Voice service, which turns voicemail into text. Want an example? Original Message: “Hey Kyle, it’s Dad. It’s Tuesday morning. Give a call at work, OK? ...” What GV Heard: “Yes. Hey Kyle,...

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Google Blogoscoped — 2 hours ago

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Google Chrome Bookmarks Syncing Live in Beta

If you’re using the Beta version of Google Chrome, you’re now able to synchronize your bookmarks across Chrome browsers on different computers, by using your Google account credentials. Wrench → Synchronize my bookmarks will get you going (if your browser version reads someth...

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Google Blogoscoped — 14 hours ago

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Google Related Links (Again)

Google once had a program called Related Links, started in 2006 and then cancelled in 2007 (see an older screenshot). Now they’re reviving the name with a new Google Labs experiment. Google Related Links (II) shows further links from a given domain which are deemed relevant to a particu...

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Google Blogoscoped — 17 hours ago

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Google's Halloween-Themed Robots.txt

While others are busy carving pumpkins or looking for the perfect mask, Google put a special Halloween egg into their robots.txt: User-agent: Kids Disallow: /tricks Allow: /treats (A year ago today, Google also changed their robots.txt...) [Thanks Niraj!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: ...

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Google Blogoscoped — 4 days ago

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Same URL Listed 10 Times in Google Result

The exact same website gets listed 10 times in a row over at a Google France search for “Chèque Sport”. I think this goes down in the SEO book of world records. French Zorgloob has more. [Thanks TomHTML!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Same URL Listed 10 Times in Google...

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Google Blogoscoped — 5 days ago

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New Google Music Onebox Lets US Users Play Music

Google has rolled out a new music onebox for the US. Using a US proxy and starting from this music page, I triggered the above results for momus (just searching from Google didn’t work, as an esrch=... parameter was needed). Clicking a link from the top music selection opens up a small ...

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Google Blogoscoped — 6 days ago